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Emily Rose Smith Emily Rose Smith is a British Actress. Smith is a graduate of Worcester College, Oxford, and has an MA in English. In 2013, Smith acted alongside Nick Moran in the Chekhov’s The Bear, for the Chichester Festival, playing Elena Ivanovna Popova, the lead female role, directed by Peter Kavanagh (BBC) in the double bill Love Games. The Chichester Observer wrote “Mrs. Popova, played with just the right mixture of obstinacy and vigour by Emily Rose Smith” Smith acted with Sam West in Dr Faustus at the Chichester Festival Theatre, 2004 where she played the Duchess of Vanholt and shared a scene with West’s Dr Faustus. The production was directed by Steven Pimlott, Martin Duncan and Edward Kemp. Smith also played the Paramour in the show and had a movement section, as she is a trained classical ballet dancer. Smith gained a First in English and Drama from Bristol University, and in her final year founded a theatre company, Open Door Productions, with fellow student Lydia Piechowiak, after staging a production of Agamemnon by Steven Berkoff, in which Smith played the role of Clytemnestra, and the production was selected for the National Student Drama Festival. After its staging at the 800 seater Spa Theatre, Scarborough, Smith organised a transfer to the Covent Garden Theatre Museum after receiving a bursary from Bristol University. Open Door then staged two more shows in London: Canaries Sometimes Sing, 2003, and Goblin Market, 2005. In 2005, Open Door was personally invited by Andrew Lloyd Webber to stage a version of Christina Rossetti’s poem Goblin Market at his annual Sydmonton Festival. 2 The play then ran at the Southwark Playhouse. Open Door received donations from Andrew Lloyd Webber, Nick Jones of the Soho House Group and Michael Sheen. Of her leading role, The Times wrote “Smith, with her tumbling golden locks, looks like the wan and lovely women of Rossetti’s paintings”3. In 2003, Open Door staged Canaries Sometimes Sing’ at the Old Red Lion. Canaries sold out and transferred to the King’s Head, Islington, and was invited to run at the Antibea Theatre, by the Red Pear company, run by Hilary King. The Stage wrote for her leading role “Smith shines as the down to earth Elma”4. The City & Islington News wrote of the show “A Triumph” 5. The opening night was attended by Rowan Atkinson. Smith is an accomplished dancer and singer. In 2006-7, Smith worked with music producer Alan Glass, on 1940s jazz recordings. Smith was awarded a scholarship to the Teresita Marsden International Summerschool, aged 15, and performed with the London City Ballet at the Chichester Festival Theatre in Cinderella and Romeo and Juliet. Smith grew up in West Sussex and attended Bishop Luffa School, Chichester References: 1.	Love Games, review, Chichester Observer, Joan Secombe, July 2013 2.	‘Lloyd Webber to aid R4 play stage move’, The Stage, May 2005 3.	Goblin Market, review, The Times,   July 2005 4.	Canaries Sometimes Sing, review, The Stage, Victoria Worsley, August 2003 5.	Canaries Sometimes Sing, review, City & Islington News, ? July 2003 6.	‘Emily, the Goblins and Andrew Lloyd Webber’, Worcester College Magazine, July 2005